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Trialing a framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition at the regional level

The logoons of the outer Darwin area, NT - Final milestone report

The project presented in this Final Milestone Report is part of the National Wetland Indicators Project regional trials, trialing the National framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition on the lagoons in the Darwin region. Indicator Themes 1-5 (catchment disturbance, physical disturbance, hydrological disturbance and the fringing zone) were reported on in detail in Milestone Report 2 for all of the lagoons in the (more)...

Matter for target inland aquatic ecosystem integrity – wetlands

Development of National Indicators for Wetland Ecosystem Extent, Distribution and Condition – Final report

Wetlands are an important part of the natural landscape, providing provisional (food and water), regulatory (floods, droughts), supporting (soil formation, nutrient cycling), and cultural (recreational, spiritual) ecosystem services. In recent years the design of wetland monitoring programs has become more robust, with a greater emphasis on the purpose of the program and an understanding of the functions, drivers, processes and pressures operating in (more)...

A State wide baseline for the extent and distribution of native vegetation for Western Australia

Project Report

Vegetation extent is the definition applied under the National NRM Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. In this context the term extent is applied to the monitoring of Native Vegetation Communities Integrity. The concept of native vegetation communities extent, applied here, is quite different to that of cover as defined above. As well as the plants themselves, vegetation communities and the ecosystems they represent also consist of areas of bare ground or rock (sometimes (more)...

A Framework for the Identification of Wetland Condition Indicators

A National Trial – South Australia

The SAWCI project has developed a process for the identification of appropriate wetland condition indicators and a pilot framework for reporting on wetland condition. This has been done in conjunction with State Departments, interstate jurisdictions, Natural Resources Management (NRM) Boards and research organisations. The project undertook the following steps: 1. Draft mapping of the extent and distribution of wetlands by the South (more)...

Estuarine, Coastal and Marine National Condition Assessment

Scoping Report

This document proposes a new generic assessment framework – the Environmental Condition Assessment Framework (ECAF), which could be the basis for a national assessment. The generic framework could be readily “flavoured” to produce a National Estuarine ECA framework (NEECAF), a national Marine ECA framework (MECAF) and a national Coastal (more)...

The Lagoons of the outer Darwin Area, NT

Trialing a Framework and Indicators for Wetland Extent, Distribution and Condition at the Regional Level - Final Milestone Report

The project presented in this Final Milestone Report is part of the National Wetland Indicators Project regional trials, trialing the National framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition on the lagoons in the Darwin region. Indicator Themes 1-5 (catchment disturbance, physical disturbance, hydrological disturbance and the fringing zone) were reported on in detail in Milestone Report 2 for all of the lagoons in the study area. This report contains the final (more)...

Development of estuarine report cards consistent with the national estuarine environmental condition assessment framework

This document has been prepared for the National Land & Water Resources Audit (the Audit) by the Water Science Branch of the Department of Water. The Audit is funding the development of a national report card system based on the emerging National Estuarine Environmental Condition Assessment Framework (NEECAF) (Mount and Arundel 2007). This report looks at the process of developing report cards with the intention of integration and translating West (more)...

Vegetation clearing as a threat

Fast Fact 38

The clearing of native vegetation is a threatening process operating on both ecosystems and species. The Audit’s Terrestrial Biodiversity Assessment identified regions where vegetation clearing threatens biodiversity.